'Stand your ground' law flawed

8:21 PM,
Dec. 5, 2012

Written by

DeWayne Wickham

The latest victim of Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law was buried on Saturday in Georgia - eight days after the vehicle he and three other black teens were sitting in was pumped full of bullets by a man who objected to their loud music.

Police said 45-year-old Michael David Dunn fired eight or nine shots into the SUV, snatching the life from the body of 17-year-old Jordan Russell Davis, who was sitting in a back seat outside a Jacksonville, Fla., convenience store.

After the shooting, Dunn waited for his girlfriend, who was inside the store when the gunfire erupted, to return to his car before ...